Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones

view of stone 454

Corsi 454, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History

OUMNH Number: 454  
Name and quarry location: Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy  
Geological description: Poorly sorted limestone conglomerate with extensive styolitic suturing of clast boundaries. The matrix is micritic with abundant forams. Yellow areas are filler.  
Comments: The name pertains to the Janiculum Hill in Rome. Perhaps this is where Corsi found his sample, although it is interesting that he classifies 'breccia del Giannicolo' among his modern marbles in the tabletops at the Natural History Museum in London. It is almost certainly a local breccia, and is very like Breccia di Tivoli, from Tivoli, province of Roma, Lazio, Italy, in the De Santis collection in the Servizio Geologico d'Italia in Rome.  
References:  
Further information:
 


Corsi's classification: Class 1. Marbles; Section 5. Breccias; ii. Italian Breccias  
Corsi's text: 121.33 Altro [Breccia del Giannicolo in Roma]  

Full entry in English

Enter some search terms
Show results as:

search tips

Searches the database for all stone records containing the words you enter. To search for a text string, put it between quotation marks. To search for stone records that don't contain a word, put a minus sign in front of it.

For example, entering: granite "coarse-grained" -Egypt will find all the coarse-grained granites that do not come from Egypt.

Terms of three characters or less have not been indexed.